Knitted fabric



Dec. 30, 1930. B GOLDBERG 1,787,264

KNITTED FABRIC Filed Nov. 10, 1930 INVENTOR. MoRR/s B. Gomez/2a.

Patented Dec; 30, 1939 if? OFFEC MORRIS B. GOLDBERG, 0F PHILADELPHIA, EENNSYLVA NIA, ASSIGNOR TO EAGLE KNIT- TING MILLS, INC, 0F PHILADELPHIA, BENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF DELA- WARE KNITTED FABRIC Application filed November 10, 1930. Serial No. 494,524.

My invention relates to knitted fabrics especially adapted for use as garment cloths for womens suits and dresses, particularly sport suits and the like.

The object of my present invention is to provide a knitted fabric having suitable body or thickness without excessive wei ht, and in which the transverse resiliency, e asticity or stretch which is so pronounced in common knitted fabrics, is entirely elimi-' nated, without however, detracting from the other desirable characteristics of the knitted cloth.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear more fully from the following detailed description, my inventionconsists of a knitted cloth or fabric comprising a knitted structure formed of knitted loops of a soft and bulky crinkled, artificial or synthetic cellulose thread or the like, extending continuously across the fabric and certain crinkled artificial cellulose thread extending transversely through the fabric in a straight formation without being looped or knitted but merely disposed Within the fabric weft-wise, whereby a bulky and yet light knitted body is formed having no transverse elasticity, resiliency or stretch and having but a minimum longitudinal elasticity, resiliency or stretch, and having other desirable characteristics of texture tending towards extreme durability and 77 Wear, and adapting said fabric more particularly for garment cloths.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in the accompanying drawings, a form thereof which is at present preferred by me, since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of the instruinentalities as herein shown and described.

Referring to the, drawings in which like reference characters indicate like parts:

' Figure 1 represents a plan View of a fragmentary portion of m 1 novel knitted fabric,

Figure 2 represents a fragmentary and.

much enlarged diagrammatic view of the composite thread of which my novel knitted fabric is formed.

Figure 3 represents an end view of my novel knitted fabric shown on a much enlarged scale, merely to illustrate the manner in which the knitted and non-knitted threads are related to each other in the fabric.

In carrying out my invention, I may utilize any double bed straight (or circular) knitting machine, with the two needle beds disposed at a suitable angle to each other, and having a suitable carriage adapted to traverse the needle beds, and to carry across said needle beds a suitable yarn carrier with a thread for knitting the looped body of the fabric by continuous-thread and inter-looped rows of stitches or loops formed alternately on the two opposed and coacting banks or rows of needles in the two needle beds.

Upon one of the carriage and carrier guide ars of the machine, I mount a special weft yarn carrier, (which apparatus does not form the subject matter of the present application) for laying a weft-like or filler thread; said weft carrier being provided with a certain novel carrier box and having a certain novel stopper related thereto, which so coact with the corresponding spring pressed plunger of the carriage as to cause said weft carrier to lead the first mentioned knit-yarn carrier by a suitable number of needles, so that the weft thread will be laid into the fabric (but not into the needles of either row), and so that the weft thread laid by this weft carrier will be disposed in the center of the fabric and will be encased between the opposed sets of'knitted loops forming the two opposed faces of the fabric.

it may employ, for both the knit-strand well as ior the weft-strand 5, a certain composite form of soft and bulky or crinkled artificial or synthetic cellulose thread illustrated, much enlarged and somewhat diagrammaticail in Figure 2. This composite thread illustrated particularly in Figure 2 consists of a taut center or core filament-or strand 6, which may be of artificial cellulose, and around which an outer strand or filament 7, preferably 'of artificial cellulose, is loosely wrapped or twisted in a gen-- erally spiral formation ;with certain enlargements of loops formed at suitable intervals, which create slight enlargements or nubs 8 ong the thread at the suitable intervals, w ich may be a sixteenth to an eighth of an inch apart.

The effect of this composite thread construction, is a loose twisted soft and somewhat bulky thread, having no substantial longitudinal elasticity or stretch, but having nevertheless, a soft, loose and bulky body,

and a'crinkled or roughened exterior with slight nubs at intervals.

My novel knitted fabric illustrated in Figures 1 and 3 of the drawing, is formed by knitting one strand of this composite crinkled thread into a two-faced fabric, that is, a fabric having ribs on-both faces there- 6 of the composite weft strand 5, and will possess but a' minimum of elasticity or stretch longitudinally, because of a certain interlocking and filling efi'ect produced by the soft and bulky or loose crinkled threads in the loop formation and weft formation.

' The resultant fabric will however, possess certain other characteristics of knitted fabties to an increased degree, to wit, lightness and softness combined with a bulkiness of body, and will possess in addition to such qualities normally inherent in knitted fabrics, and added quality of firmness not present in knitted cloths, as well as the ability to retain itsshape or set, which quality is likewise not possessed by common knitted cloths.

I am aware that my invention may be em- 6 bodied in other specific forms without deartin from the spirit or essential attriutes t ereof, and I therefore desire the present embodiment to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, reference beinghad to the appended claims rather than to the foregoing description to indicate the sco of the invention.

Having thus escribed m invention, what I hereby claim as new an desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A knitted fabric comprising opposed rows of interlooped knitted loops of a loosely twisted thread having a relatively taut core strand, and an un-knitted loosely twisted thread, having a relatively taut core, extending through the fabric in a substantially straight formation intermediate of the opposed rows of interlooped knitted loops and encased therebetween 'said fabric being relatively non-stretching transversely.

2. A knitted fabric comprising opposed rows of interlooped knitted-loops of a loosely twisted and relatively bulky thread including synthetic cellulose having a relatively' taut core strand, and an un-knitted loosely twisted and relatively bulky thread including synthetic cellulose, having a relatively taut core, extending through the fabric in a substantially straight formation intermediate of the opposed rows of interlooped knitted loops and encased therebetween ;said fabric being relatively non-stretching transversely.

3. A knitted fabric comprising opposed rows of interlooped knitted loops of a loosely twisted crinkled thread, and an un-knitted loosely twisted crinkled thread extending through the fabric in a substantially straight formation intermediate of the opposed rows of interlooped knitted loops and encased therebetween;said fabric being relatively non-stretching transversely.

4. A knitted fabric comprising opposed rows of interlooped knitted loops of a loosely twisted and relativel t bulky and crinkled thread including synt etic cellulose, and an un-knitted loosely twisted and relatively bulky thread including synthetic cellulose, extending through the fabric in a substantially straight formation intermediate of the opposed rows of interlooped knitted loops and encased therebetween ;--said fabric being relatively non-stretching transversely.

5. A knitted fabric comprising opposed rows of interlooped knitted loops of a looselytwisted and relatively bulky thread including synthetic cellulose,-and an un-knitted loosely V twisted and relatively bulky thread including synthetic -cellulose, having a relatively taut core, extending through the fabric in a substantially straight formation intermediate of the opposed rows of interlooped knitted loops and encased therebetween;said fabric being relatively non-stretching transversely.

. 6. A knitted fabric comprising opposed rows of interlooped knitted loops of a loosely twisted and relatively bulky thread including synthetic cellulose, and an un-knitted loosely twisted and relatively bulky thread including synthetic cellulose, extending through the fabric in a'substantially straight and taut formation intermediate of the opposed rows of lnterlooped knitted loo s and encased therebetween;said fabric eing relatively non-stretching transversely.

7. A knitted sportwear fabric comprising memee opposed rows of interlooped knitted loops of a, relatively loosely twisted and relatively bulky crinkled thread including synthetic cellulose and an unknitted thread extending through the fabric in a generally straight and taut formation intermediate the opposed rows of interlooped knitted loops, and encased therebetween, said fabric being relatively nonstretching transversely.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of November, 1930.

MORRIS B. GOLDBERG. 

